Key features of this 2.3.0-RC1 release are* improved Ant support with some new Ant tasks and enhancements to existing tasks* some new resolvers* numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

In addition, experimental OSGI support has been added to the Ivy core.

As a release candidate version, we strongly encourage the use of this version for testing and validation. From now on, features are frozen until final 2.3.0 version, only bug fixes will be applied before 2.3.0. If no outstanding bugs are reported with this release candidate, it will promoted to 2.3.0 about three weeks after thisrelease candidate.

Release Notes

CONTENTS1. What is Apache Ivy?2. How to Get Involved3. How to Report Issues4. Committers and Contributors for this release5. List of Changes in this Release

1. What is Apache Ivy?

Apache Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies. It is characterized by the following:

1. flexibility and configurability Apache Ivy is essentially process agnostic and is not tied to any methodology or structure. Instead it provides the necessary flexibility and configurability to be adapted to a broad range of dependency management and build processes. 2. tight integration with Apache Ant while available as a standalone tool, Apache Ivy works particularly well with Apache Ant providing a number of powerful Ant tasks ranging from dependency resolution to dependency reporting and publication.

2. Status of this release

This is the first release candidate of Ivy targetting 2.3.0.

As a release candidate version, we strongly encourage the use of this version for testing and validation. From now on, features are frozen until final 2.3.0 version, only bug fixes may be applied before 2.3.0. If no outstanding bugs are reported with this release candidate, it will promoted to 2.3.0 about three weeks after thisrelease candidate.

3. How to Get Involved

The Apache Ivy project really needs and appreciates any contributions, including documentation help, source code and feedback. If you are interestedin contributing, please visit http://ant.apache.org/ivy/get-involved.html.

4. How to Report Issues

5. Committers and Contributors for this Release

Here is the list of people who have contributed source code and documentationto this release. Many thanks to all of them, and also to the whole Ivy communitycontributing ideas and feedback, and promoting the use of Ivy. The list would be toolong, but Ivy couldn't be what it is without you!

- NEW: New Ant datatype ivy:resources, an Ant resource collection like ivy:cachepath or ivy:cachefileset (IVY-334)- NEW: ivy:resolve and post resole task can now have inlined dependencies declaration.- NEW: Import Bushel into Ivy core (IVY-1241)- NEW: An new resolver 'mirroredurl' which can handle a list of mirrored URL repositories (IVY-468)- NEW: Support for a jar resolver (IVY-1312)